Monthly Archives: July 2018

Choreographing your own belly dance routine? Don’t reinvent the Wheel

You’ve made your first belly dance choreography – woo hoo! This is awesome and you deserve credit for challenging yourself to create your very own dance.

In the first instance, it’s all about learning to count the music, which moves configure together well and how to transition between moves and sequences. At this stage, you probably want to stick to a track that can easily be counted in eights with few or no rhythm changes.

Once you’ve got this all locked down, it’s time to move on to the next step and expand on your creative methods.

In this week’s express class, I’m really “giving away the farm” as I’ll be giving you one of my top tips for belly dance choreography. I’ll then be giving you a really use-able example of what I’m getting at.

It’s so tempting to throw in every single move you’ve ever learned into one routine. But one thing that will really develop your creativity and help you mature as a choreographer is to be playful and creative with what you already know.

Ready to find out more?

Go here to take the class now:

Thank you so much for joining me for this week’s express class! Be sure to join the conversation, leave me a comment on YouTube and let me know what you think. Do you have any top tips to share? We’d love to know!

Your assignment

Dance this concept along with me several times until you have a good understanding of this idea, then get creative! Try changing the move a few times to see what happens. There are no wrong moves, just experimentation. Some of the outcomes might not work for you, some might work really well, some might not work but will spark off other ideas that you would never have discovered!

Learn belly dance with us!

Our Autumn 2018 courses are now open! Early bird prices are in full swing on all courses from Beginner to Advanced and troupe level. Go here to grab your place.

Not local to me here in Reading? If you’d like to learn how to bellydance with me from the ground up (or rise to the top of the class if you already bellydance), let’s hit the ground running distance learning style!

Using my longer, more comprehensive classes, drills, choreography sequences, movement tutorials, technical preparation exercises at Santa Maria Bellydance Online, we’ll have you confidently bellydancing in no time 🙂 You can learn with me anywhere and any time you have internet connection. Go to www.santamariabellydanceonline.com to find out more and get started now!

Thank you so much for reading and being here. Happy dancing to you, with love and shimmies,

Helen xx

Ps. Here’s a peek at one of my new drills classes at Santa Maria Bellydance Online